#BUT I'M A LATE 90S KID

[thebahwrites]

No one asked me and that’s fine because that’s entirely my brand in here, but I saw a colleague’s tweet and just couldn’t stop thinking about it.

An IceMav dads + Rooster headcanon: With TGMs weird befuddled timeline and Bradley’s age being an ambiguous mess, all I  want everyone to consider is:

Bradley had a Tamagotchi. Tamagotchi’s were all the rage in ‘97/’98, so a teen-ish Bradley BEGGING to get one because every kid does and of course he gets one. But it’s a Tamagotchi and those of you who are too young to even remember the rage of it, those little shits were WORK. And it was a point of PRIDE TO KEEP THEM ALIVE for as long as possible. But to keep them alive you had to give them CONSTANT attention and I mean CONSTANT.

But also he was a teen in the Icemav household and you know Iceman was the kind of loving but stern parent that required Bradley to show grades and work. So the only condition for Bradley to get it? “You can’t take it to school most days so it won’t distract you.” (He could take it Fridays and maybe the week post-tests if results were good.) But also Ice would feel bad if Bradley’s tamagotchi died because Bradley really treated it like a pet. They didn’t have pets because everyone worked so much at all times, the feral cat that decided to inhabit Mav’s workshop did not count. Solution? Ice kept the tamagotchi while Bradley was at school. They did try to leave it with Mav but Mav’s ADHD nuked it on the first week, he could NOT keep it alive more than a few hours. 

So Iceman, in the late 90s and for a good portion of his YEAR, babysat a tamagotchi. He took pride in the fact him and Bradley managed to have SEVERAL 12-day (the oldest a Tama can be before dying of old age) pets.

Many of Ice’s underlings were in awe of it. Slider also helped keep the thing alive. In fact, it was a whole village effort before he handed it back to Bradley during weekdays and when not in assignments and whatnot. 

#bah rambles #top gun headcanons #icemav #bradley rooster bradshaw #tom iceman kazansky #top gun maverick #top gun posting #LISTEN #I KNOW IT'S SILLY #BUT I'M A LATE 90S KID #and my friend said her daughter made her buy a tamagotchi and she said #'okay but you can't take it to school for distraction' #and now SHE babysits the thing #...and she's the teacher #and the idea of Ice doing that just... #also Iceman is a softie inside you can't convince me otherwise #y'all sleeping on 90's/early 00's Rooster #where's the tamagotchis furbys backstreet boys craze

[todayisafridaynight]

brother was talking to me about how if you almost die from an extreme-temperature-related incident then your body is just forever fucked towards that temperature and that's why i think kiryu and saejima are weak to ice. i dont know why aoki isn't like that too but ignore that statistic everything else tracks.

#snap chats #i already made this post highkey but im making it again cause i didnt know this was an actual real thing ☠️ #my brother learned this when he started to work for target. because apparently that's a thing they tell you frame one #'snap how did this topic even come up' i am LITERALLY so glad you asked :) the cold has almost claimed me twice #am i exaggerating Maybe but its my fucked up body temperature now listen #when i was younger i got locked out of my house for like. three hours since i was a latchkey kid #and my dad wasn't supposed to come home with my siblings (from their after school events) for Three Hours #and it had snowed outside and Was Cold Yeah and i couldn't get in cause i forgot my key like a weiner #and yeah. was really cold :) my dad was real cross with me when he found me shivering in the shed LOL #he made me hot cocoa tho so its ok. second incident's just funny No I Talk About It Evvery Other Week #and im p sure i talked bout the first incident too but yeah that time after the con when i was at my sister's #like i cannot stress how cold it was because It Was Late November and the cold still existed #and my sister's heater just. Didnt Work but yeah. i wont go into detail cause i share this story every five seconds #POINT IS i've always had a hard time with the cold- like i'm cold nearly all the time even if the room is 90 degrees #i wont be COLD cold but i'll be colder than i like #anyways can't believe i'm weak to ice this is so sad. i love winter.. #aoki isn't weak to ice cause uhhhh /aoki/ didnt almost die in the cold 🥴 masato did 🥴 #imagine changing your identity so well that you just remove your past elemental weakness. fucked up. #alright bye

[sarah-crewe]

tagged by my buddy @jennamacaroni to spell out my account name with songs.

sold (the grundy county auction incident) by john michael montgomery a case of you cover by gabrielle aplin rich by maren morris any man of mine by shania twain hot & heavy by lucy dacus - cruel summer cover by g-flip reckless driving (feat. ben kessler) by lizzy mcalpine embarrassing by taylor bickett wild turkey by amythyst kiah enchanted (taylor's version) by taylor swift

tagging @thecrackshiplollipop @stellesappho @roarsaidthedinosaur @the-emef @fluent-in-lesbianism @knockfivetimes @socallmedaisy @catsofyore @tarynlatx @always-undermining

#every time i do something like this #i'm like oh right what absolutely middling letter variety #about me tho #i am cackling about lizzie doing this tho #picked from songs i either liked recently #or have been listening to on repeat lately #been super into nostalgic country from the 80s and 90s #it's been reminding me of being a kid at my gram's house #my kingdom for bs ys fs or is there were so many starting with those #truly had to restrain myself from just picking all my friends with the longest usernames #okay SORT of restrain myself

[contac]

#child clock #these were cruel and i'm glad they were outlawed in the late 90s #vhs #gif #1995 #90s kids #lucite

[babbeldumpsterfire]

I've been discussing this recently with people older than me, and I've always considered myself as a person who got to experience, albeit fleetingly, the XX century. Some say that being born in the 90s means you basically only experienced 1/10 or less of the XX century, so you can be lumped with 2000s kid as honorary member lol. Some say early 90s are the last conceivable birth years to call yourself a 90s/XX century child. So, what's the opinion on this here on tumblr? Who can be realistically called a XX century kid? (edit: to better explain, who can be said to have experienced fully or at least pretty satisfactorily the XXth? People who turned 20 in the 90s? People who hit 30s in the 90s?) Reblog for larger sample size!

#polls #boomers #gen x #millennials #gen z #I'm a 94 baby so ok I was way too small to remember much #but I've also always felt like I have more in common with people born in the late 80s and all the 90s (stretching it to include 00-01 borns #I feel like people born 2000 and after are like a whole different planet #to me they're the real new millennium kids #(I'm not saying I feel superior or anything #it's just that it feels a bit forced to lump me with new century kids who are still teenagers or early 20s-since I'm pushing 30s lmao)

[chaotic-guinea-pig]

the good thing about consistent sleeping schedules is yay, more sleep!!

...but then I fall asleep before my creative energy bursts, which come after midnight. :( my writing sessions used to be late (up to 3am, even), but alas, gotta find a new time now. :((

#like I'm the kind who would daydream about a chapter for a long time. maybe write small parts daily if time permits #but I kid you not 90% of the final chapter gets written during random late night bursts LMAO #and now modern life demands a normal sleeping schedule of me GRRRRR #what is structure >:(

[unproduciblesmackdown]

similar to the greentext stuff - i was visiting with my neighbors and their grandkids were around, and I said to this eight year old, "Hey, you wanna know something cool? I was playing the game when the Endermen came out." and his eyes went wide, like this kid looked like i told him i landed on the moon. His grandma thought it was really funny, and she said she has no idea what i'm talking about, but her grandbabies do, and that's incredible to her.

oh that's fun lmao, when minecraft & that update's existed for more than your whole life, and yknow being that young and like Next Year fr is this huge time scale away, a couple of years is a quarter of your life thus far and like maybe nigh half of the part of your life you actually have longterm memories for....i was checking out this dev's blog's archives about a:tdd's release in 2010 & in one entry they compared the implicitly Roughly concurrent release of Minecraft and i was like hey whoah. forever primarily being a game i've Heard Of more than any more direct exposure so i had no precise sense of [before minecraft release] [after minecraft release] Year 0 there but it's like for sure back in thee day when minecraft was a new thing, huh

#add in that [i also basically Heard Of mass effect but that's a game series w/a 2010 median which i had Any knowledge abt already] #so i have that reference point for a still like [niche video for When You've Played These Games For Sure] there but then like #if you were ten or even 5 yrs younger at the time you May Well Be much more at sea as your starting point there #(but i mean not that much; i didn't know a ton. reread those wikipedia plot summaries myself) #enderman came out? happy pride #shoutout to this one time i crossed paths w/this kid who was at the time probably like late middle school early high school age #who started talking abt pokemon like Clearly A Big Interest and i'm like my only Direct experience is playing pokemon go but i know Some #stuff b/c i was 5 in '99 when it was first making that huge splash lol. can make Some remarks....but also just Listening Attentively To You #Monologue like uh huh go off....i sure remember like the Sense of a couple yr's sagacity like being 9 i think reading a book abt 6th or 7th #graders (i.e. two or three yrs older) like My God They Must Be So Mature.... #and like ofc when skimming passages as an adult it's like omg l'enfants. Both Perspectives Being Accurate respectively lol #my vintage experiences like i've def saved things on the floppy discs of [save icons imagery]. have heard the dialup tones organically.... #but also; say; Home Computers That You Didn't Really Need To Know Much Abt Computers To Use were forever an everyday thing for me #having been born mid '90s....vs like in the '80s being nicher but also like. the programs to amateur code not being As Complex either #like [working on cars] of yore vs more modernly lmao....plus ofc in their designs; opening up a desktop Tower vs what? a tablet?? #ppl my age who had more substantial Online Access earlier than i did maybe having at least picked up some html; which i did not lol #also didn't have too much Gamer Experience ever; what i did largely desktop then laptop pc wasd+mouse style.... #didn't have a smartphone till maybe 5 yrs after they were starting to become more commonplace #vs that again to an 8 yr old of today [commonplacer smartphones] is your whole life basically too. i remember when we flipped those phones. #(i do fr lol. did have one of those first for a good while.) #granpa granpa....mh being fourteen yrs old meaning like the Teen Fans of Today were probably not watching it as it aired lol #whereas i Was that teen fan of those yesteryears. and all my stories for it like fuckin uhhhhhh [crickets chirping] [studio audience laugh] #though You Don't Need The Fans like mh is a long movie ppl can newly discover Whenever that holds up; plus it has bonus lore #mostly what i could even Possibly bring is just the particularly nicher older bonus lore. but like grandpa simpson (the simpsons) for sure #which is to say: humorously irrelevant & perhaps somewhat cantankerous #whilest i'm vaguely aware there may have also been that minecraft resurgence (esp through streaming?) from 2020 on.... #but evidently Like Mh something that continually revives / takes on New Fans / Participants #for sure i might well be playing some tf2 myself if i had the technical capability (i would have the poor personal ability i always did lol #real games of yore but it never gets old also. though i know Of Late there was a bot problem / just neglected maintenance? that get fixed? #These Have Been The Tag Tangents. maxed out thirty tags i know that's right

[septimus-heap]

I think u ppl need to calm down on calling things "90s kids" stuff. Just saw that post abt how ur meant to put water in those dry markers from the shitty art kits and someone said smth abt "90s kids screaming in outrage" as if literally every child in the last 22 years who was under the age of 13 and ever displayed the urge to colour hasnt had one of those

#sep talks #like idk #this one specifically was just someone being stupid but even stuff like the big clunky tvs and certain classroom toys #'only 90s kids will remember!!' I think perhaps u were just well off #my parents had been getting those old clunky tvs off freecycle up until I was like 8 #and then we finally got a flatscreen #and this one is. I don't think smth a lot of ppl my age share but I distinctly remember when in primary school #theyd wheel out the tv and we'd watch bbc cats eyes (educational program) on what I am 99% sure was vhs #my house is full of cds that my parents got years ago and I used to ask for them for christmas and shit so I could have more music on my #mp3 player. Like u all say 'only 90s kids will remember' abt stuff that literally everyone between the ages 13-30 has had #obviously some of this stuff doesn't rlly count but I see so many posts and I'm like. Is this an american thing that britain got late #or did this person just have money growing up #OR does this person spend so much time on tiktok that they think ur average tiktok teen is a good representation of what ppl #under the age of 20 r doing these days. (they r not)

[eggmeralda]

can never describe enough how excited I am for the inevitable 2010s revival of the future

(also this turned into a massive ramble accidentally?)

#like i know there are already kids being like ''i wish i was a teenager in 2014 😭'' but i mean like #you know how like the past 5 years have been so 80s inspired #and also 90s #and how the 90s were really into the 60s #and i cannot wait for all the awful aesthetics that were everywhere when i was 12 to come back #bc i'm curious how it'll look. bc obviously it won't be like. the 2010s are back #it'll be this romanticised idea of the 2010s and i wonder which parts will be rejected and which parts you'll see Everywhere #god i feel like there needs to be a new Thing that causes the need for nostalgia #e.g. in the 70s when punk and indie started as a response to the way music was getting so. idk. complicated or whatever #or like kind of inaccessible to do yourself. like dgmw prog rock slaps disco slaps etc. but not everyone could just. do that #and then punk happened and it was so simplified like no long guitar solos or whatever it was so stripped down. and same with indie #not to ramble about what was in my dissertation but early indie was SO 60s influenced it was unreal. and. it was the nostalgia..... #and then i guess with punk there was new wave and post punk and then new romantics and synthpop and things got synthier and then idk #the 80s were so electronic which. again it slaps. but then it got to a point that it was Too Much again that there needed to be a Return #to the past and stuff. so then grunge and britpop and other stuff happened #and idek it always seems to be there's a new music genre or new subculture that evolves over a few years into different things #before getting too much and the next generation wants to go back so they make a new genre. which then evolves and the cycle goes on #but (at least from what I've seen. which probably isn't a lot bc i live under a rock) there doesn't seem to be anything New lately? #everything's all revivals of older genres now. like i haven't seen any new equivalent to emo or britpop or punk or beat or rock n roll etc #like a thing that Changes the timeline. and i was reading this essay about the new beatles song saying how we don't need a new beatles song #even though the new song's still cool it was kind of saying like everything nowadays is recycled and nothing is shocking anymore #like nostalgia is so big now. with all the film remakes and stuff like that. there is nooTHING NEWLY NEW. IDEK. I am rambling so much #just thinking about many things. this was sparked bc i listened to twilight by cover drive and it literally transported me back to year 7 #and that led to early 10s nostalgia and by the time that comes back into fashion will the nostalgia problem be worse or will something have #happened within that time. like a new punk or something. tbf i guess a lot of what I'm talking about is to do with rock and i mean #there's rap and stuff which i don't listen to a lot of so idk maybe there's stuff going on there which i don't know about. but then #i want there to be something i Do know about. like something you can't escape. kids are all dressing like this and listening to this and #we WILL hear about it. new proper subculture that isn't just a week long tiktok trend. ykw i blame tiktok for all of this lol #but yeah. holy shit tag limit #ramble

[meowyoi]

about my last rb not knowing how to burn a cd is not a gen z thing just say you don't know bc that's on YOU

#unrelated but it's also so funny to me when people make posts like only 90s kids will remember but i had that shit and i'm born in 2005??? #things just came to croatia too late LOL

[smol-blue-bird]

you know, I generally agree with criticism of modern-day American Girl, but I really don't get why people are pissed that they're making historical dolls from the 90s??? Like, they introduced Julie in the 2000s, and she's from the 70s. I guess that's a wider time gap, but still. To modern kids, the 90s were a long time ago! 23 years is a lot in kid time!

#to be clear I'm not saying that their designs are good #or that the brand's quality hasn't declined horribly #but a lot of the criticism about the time period specifically #feels like it boils down to adults getting angry that their childhoods are now considered “history” #and that modern little girls don't actually remember the late 90s personally #like sorry but that's just how time works! #someone on Twitter was like WHAT ARE THEY EVEN GONNA TALK ABOUT??? THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL??? THE PRE-UBIQUITOUS-INTERNET WORLD??? #and it's like #yeah probably #children today were not alive for those events. and the whole purpose of the brand is to teach children about events they werent alive for #my sister liked learning about our parents' childhoods from the Julie books #and I'm sure modern kids will like learning about their parents' childhoods from the 90s books

[dilfsuzanneyk]

if i knew my weird al poll was gonna blow up i would've thought through the options a little more 😭😭 fully expected it to just circle the same few people who are active on the weird al tag

#also there were some people saying like. #“kids these days” or like “everyone here is so young” #maybe they meant it humourously and in jest but damn that hurt a little #i just got into his stuff this year i genuinely didn't know he was on disney channel a few times in the 90s and all that fjsndlsnf #maybe i'm just like sensitive and taking it to heart too much but #damn it's not my fault i was born a little late... #i grew up in the early 2000s man i'm barely even a full human 😭😭 #apologise if i'm out of touch with the goings on of the 80s-90s #vex rambles

[questioningdragons]

Fuck, here I thought the levels of measles were bad, now I find out there's rising polio cases.

#we do not want a resurgence of polio people #I don't even know if I'm vaccinated against polio because polio was all but unheard of when I was a kid #were canadian kids in the late 90's vaccinated against polio? #I know I am in need of a dTap booster #I know I've had mmr vaccines #(should I look into whether or not I need a booster for that too?) #okay maybe more like mid-late 90's

[tiktoksinspo]

#I'm sorry what #wtf #I'm gonna slap these kids #late 90's babies #1997 baby #the disrespect #tiktok #tiktoks #@manonmathews